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Why I Am Professing Vows as an IHM Sister

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

As promised, I took a couple little videos (I don’t have a real video camera, just the one on my digital camera) so that I could share with you some of the profession ceremony of Sister Katherine Collard, IHM.
In this video, Katherine responds to Sister Mary Fran Gilleran, IHM President, who asks Katherine to speak […]

Religious Life is Alive and Well

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A fellow blogging nun has posted a wonderful reflection that she gave to a group of lay people about religious life. This contemplative Redemptoristine sister (Order of the Most Holy Redeemer) writes the blog Contemplative Horizon. This reflection on religious life, she writes, is meant “to bring our lay friends up to date and give […]

Do nuns ever feel lonely?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

From my Ask Sister page …
I’m stepping into religious life… or at least I think I am. I was wondering - do you ever feel lonely and alone? I really hate travelling alone and I yearn for the physical presence of a man - not sexual - just the ‘being there’. Jesus is my spouse, […]

Quietly Doing God’s Work

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Don’t miss this article by Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, “Quietly Doing God’s Work” (April 17, 2008). Here’s a quote from the article:
At approximately the same time the pope was standing in the White House, Sister Carmen Soto was standing in a food pantry on Monroe Street in Mount Pleasant, 3 miles north of 1600 […]

Good article on today’s nuns

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Today’s nuns answer calls to serve differently 
Modern sisters reach out to the world around them in ways unlike their stereotype
Nancy Lofholm
The Denver Post
March 23, 2008
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.
Sister Karen Bland is a thoroughly modern Catholic nun. Her gold Chevrolet Malibu is proof.
The well-used tennis shoes she wears in her early-morning, after-Mass visits to a health club […]

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